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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Bill Maher Compares Trump To Norma Desmond

Comedian and TV host, author Bill Maher landed blows on on his HBO show “Real Time” Friday night, not just taking aim at Donald Trump, but also at his “enabling” peeps who surround him.

“Without his professional liars and deniers, there’s no Trump. It takes a village to help a man-child stay in power”

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“If
you get up every day and try to make Donald Trump’s ludicrous and
dangerous pronouncements sound normal and sane, you are an enabler,” he
said. “Twenty years from now when your kids ask you over a glass of
soylent green ‘What did you do during the Trump years, Daddy?,’ you
don’t want your answer to be ‘My job was to go on TV and pretend Trump
didn’t say whatever you just heard him say.’That is an enabler and that
word is not a compliment.”

Comparing
Trump to “Sunset Boulevard’s” Norma Desmond and her “sycophant man
servant” Max as a great fictional enabler, Maher called the similarity
especially timely.

“It’s
about an aging unstable drama queen who is able to maintain a fantasy
worldbecause, even though Norma Desmond is pure, around the bend she’s
bats–t nuts,” he said, as a classic scene of Norma descending a
staircaseplayed in the background.

Maher added, with the footage of Norma’s descent
replaced with footage of Trump making his way down an escalator in Trump
Tower. “Like
I say, timely,”

“In
the plot, Norma Desmond is a faded movie queen, a silent film star of
the 1920s, but now she hasn’t worked in 30 years but she still thinks
she’s big because of Max.

Max goes into the basement every night and
writes fake fan letters to fool her into thinking people still love her.
Is that really any different than [Devin Nunes] pretending to have
intelligence that backs up what his mad boss tweeted at three in the
morning?”

After
jabs at those Maher calls Trump’s enablers – everyone from Sean Hannity
to Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence – he said, “I’m sure last week when
Trump’s health care bill went down in flames, he was surrounded by
enablers who all nodded when he said,

* Elvis
had his Memphis Mafia. * Michael Jackson had a doctor who never said,
'Gee, Mike, your nose just fell off again. Maybe cut back on the plastic
surgery.'" * Donald Trump has minions like Kellyanne
Conway, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus, who make a living telling
everyone the insane bullshit that spews from Trump's mouth is actually a
fountain of truth.

"He's
just telling it like it is," they say. "He's a straight shooter." But
Bill Maher called out Trump's enablers on Real Time Friday night,
comparing Trump's minions to the character of Max from Sunset Boulevard,
the loyal servant who enables and encourages Norma Desmond's delusions
that she is still famous and adored when, in reality, she is a washed up
has-been.

Maher
noted that Sunset Boulevard is a particularly apt comparison because it
is about an "aging, unstable drama queen who is able to maintain a
fantasy world because... Norma Desmond is pure around-the-bend, batshit
nuts... she has Max there, and he keeps the real world far out of
sight."

Just look at the similarities:

And,
like Norma's Max, Trump's enablers - his daughter, his son-in-law, his
vice president, his staff - they are all feeding Trump's delusions that he
is the greatest thing to ever happen to America and the most amazing,
intelligent person to enter the Oval Office.

"I'm
sure last week when Trump's healthcare bill went down in flames," Maher
continued, "he was surrounded by enablers who all nodded when he said,
'I'm still big league. It's the Congress got small."The line, of
course, echoesSunset's Norma, who famously said, "I am big. It's the
pictures that got small."